Wakefield voters got fooled once into voting for “medical” marijuana, falling for the scam along with the rest of the state in 2012.

Before you get your safety pins out, let me remind you that medical marijuana was sold under the guise of helping the sick, and the people of Wakefield are compassionate. So I can give them a pass on that. I’ve never maintained that marijuana hasn’t ever helped any sick person, although I believe that such instances are extremely rare. It was a scam in the sense that the true purpose of legalizing medical marijuana was never to help the sick. It was to get a foot in the door for full legalization.

If supporting the arts and local artists isn’t enough to get you to “Suburban Holidays,” Quannapowitt Players annual theater festival/fundraiser, how about an even better reason? It’s a damn good show!

“Suburban Holidays V” marks the fifth year that QP’s annual winter fundraiser has offered a festival of short plays with holiday themes. This year, two of the eight short plays were written by Wakefield residents (Patrick Cleary and Peter Cosmas Sofronas). Cleary and another Wakefield resident, Donna Corbett, share directing duties, and another Wakefieldian, Brian Sensale, stars in two of the plays.

Call them the gang that couldn’t shoot straight – unless they’re aiming at their own foot. Then again, calling the Wakefield Civic League a “gang” probably overstates their numbers.

You have to feel a little sorry for the Wakefield Civic League, aka Bronwyn Della-Volpe. Everything they try to do seems to backfire on them.

Take her latest move. She applied to be appointed to the Bylaw Review Committee. Then once the Board of Selectmen decided to give her a chance and appointed her, she said, “Nevermind,” and rejected the position.Continue reading ‘Reversal of Fortune’

In the wake of this week’s exercise in democracy, members of the belt and shoelaces crowd have been consoling each other on social media by sharing ways to cope with their overwhelming stress by working to make our planet a better place before they give up and move to Canada.

Of course, none of these meaningful activities involve supporting veterans or law enforcement. So I’ve decided to rectify that. (I’m nothing if not helpful.)

If you’ve been through the downtown or Greenwood in the last few weeks, you’ve seen them, but you may not have known what they were all about – those big blue ribbons and bows hanging from signposts, utility poles and trees.

A few Saturdays ago, several dozen wives, family members, friends and supporters of local and state police went around and hung the blue ribbons as a show of support for the men and women in blue.